classical and romantic academia

art and literature inspired by history and mythology

[the-evil-clergyman]

Athenais by John William Godward (1908)

[persistanceofmemory]

O brightest! though too late for antique vows, / Too late for the fond believing lyre ... Yet even in these days so far retir'd / From happy pieties, thy lucent fans / Fluttering among the faint Olympians, / I see, and sing, by my own eyes inspir'd - John Keats, "Ode to Psyche" (1819)

[persistanceofmemory]

Love Amongst the Ruins by Edward Burne-Jones (1873)

[missfolly]

Musical notation by Ludwig van Beethoven (I)

[vsthepomegranate]

Masqueraders (detail) (1875-78)

by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

[requiem-on-water]

(1) Mercury and Psyche (1878) by Reinhold Begas, (2) Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids (1879) by Eduard Müller          

Photography by Pavel Nekoranec

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Carnelian ring, Kingdom of Axum (Ethiopia), circa 400 AD

[persistanceofmemory]

The Death of Cleopatra by Edmonia Lewis (1876)

[wedarkacademia]

"I sink into your eyes whenever I'm looking at you."

-Franz Kafka, From A letter To Milena Jesenská Written C. August 1920

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Egyptian amulet (gold with inlays of lapis lazuli, turquoise, and steatite) depicting the ba, one of the components of the soul in Egyptian thought. Artist unknown; 332-30 BCE (Ptolemaic period). Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.

[flowerytale]

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music? Do I wake or sleep?”

Manuscript of ’Ode to a Nightingale’ by John Keats

[persistanceofmemory]

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

- Virginia Woolf, “A Room of Ones Own”

[classictell-deactivated20231007]

Circe - The Temptress, Charles Hermans

[astereaus]

Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst

[persistanceofmemory]

Danae by Gustave Klimt (1907)

[laurapetrie]

“I am so fond of romantic things, just as if I were a heroine in a book.”

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)

[the-evil-clergyman]

L’Aurore by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1884)